RUGMARK Foundation

RUGMARK Foundation
File under Fair Trade:
RUGMARK is a global nonprofit organization working to end illegal child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in India, Nepal and Pakistan.
The RUGMARK label is your best assurance that no illegal child labor was employed in the manufacture of a carpet or rug.
They are holding a raffle for a [...]

Professional organizers

You know, if this one was local I'd give her a call.
Actually, I should mention, she contacted me for a story I'm working
on. All hail PRNewswire, but I thought I'd pass along the site because
for those of us 214ers, it's kinda neat to see you can make a living
at this.
http://www.clutterqueen.com/

For future reference

Cool sermons from St. Mark's in Philly. Must visit.

http://www.saintmarksphiladelphia.org/sermons/

Proof that I'm not anti-beer

I'm home sick with a bad throatie-headache-exhaustion combo. I swear, I've had more physical maladies since coming off the pill than I have had in the past three years. Anyhow.
I just read the word “youngster” and had to read it twice, because I could have sworn it said “yuengster.”

FINALLY

Some of you will recall that i contacted my best friend from college a few months ago and a couple of weeks later, she wrote back, and I was uberhappy about this.
We scheduled a reunion of sorts the same weekend that one of the hurricanes dumped a shitload of rain on us. She lives by [...]

The birds

There are a flock (is that the right word?) of sparrows living in the hedge outside our ground floor. These are likely the population that Cody was picking off when we used to let her sit out there.
Yesterday we rather spontaneously decided to go visit Nicole for thanksgiving, and twas lovely that we [...]

Now available in black

I was going to post something rantly about how we are manipulated to shop on this day and hallelujah for those that resist the retail machine. That said, I always like to plug the small businesses of friends of mine that kick ass, and i will do so in a week or so, after payday. [...]

Light Blazes

The devotional book in which I am published has a companion website, http://alightblazes.blogspot.com/ — you can follow along with the lectionary and devotionals there.
Right now, there's the moving foreword, and a number of “blurbs” along the right-hand side.
My copy should arrive any day now. I'm excited.
Happy Thanksgiving, all. I was going to [...]

The world of chronic pain

My left shoulder hurts almost every day, now. It reminds me of the torticollis Dean had last winter, except my pain is in the rotator cuff, probably the teres major.
I have a nasty habit of sleeping on that side that I need to break, bigtime.

I have gone completely insane

Some years back, Jenn compiled a CD called “A Brief History of Helen's Hair.”
that is becoming an opus. Some 32 pictures at last count, and there are gaping holes that I'm trying to track down. I even found one from 1996. There are others that we may scan. Those of you on flickr now can [...]

Sucks.

Dunno if I can make philcon. Work has dropped an un-reschedulable meeting in
my lap that Friday afternoon. Trips to Philly suck if I have to make them
Friday night.

I'll take my Nigerian spam-scam stir-fried, thanks

Emphasis mine…

I have asked God for forgiveness and I know that God have forgiven me. But I
have to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God by giving out the
fund to the chosen ministry for the purpose of God's wok as instructed by
the owner before his death. After my fasting and prayers, [...]

It's official…

I start EFM in January. Education for Ministry is a continuing education program of theological education. Given that right now I'm not in a position to pursue an academic program, I think this is a perfect bridge.

Glad I checked my SFF net mail…

We gotta hit this. It's my former lead singer/guitarist, from back in the day when I used to make money beating up the plastic ivories. Monday or Tuesday.
> Sean Michael Dargan will bring his nifty solo show back to the East
> coast next week. I hope you can come see a show!
>
> The Loft [...]

This just came back into my head.

Something I forgot to mention about a weird conversation I had at world fantasy:
Me: “I'm a professional writer and editor, just not of fiction.”
Person beside me: “Oh, please say you're not a technical writer.”
Head go scratchy.